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People came here to nail their illnesses into a tree. The Tilleul des Lognards was a nail tree. A cloth was rubbed on the sore place and then hammered to the bark, and the complaint was supposed to pass into the wood along with it. Skin trouble and toothache were the usual reasons for the walk up. The lime stands on an open grassy plateau between the centre of Xhoris, Pierreux and the Bléron valley, and it has company. A Herman cross, the Sainte-Barbe chapel and a stele share the ground with it, so the tree is one item in a small collection of things people have put on this spot over the centuries. Wallonia classified it on 5 November 1965 and it has been on the heritage register as an arbre remarquable ever since, under the reference 61019-CLT-0010-01. Its trunk measured four metres round at 1.30 metres from the ground in 2014. Nobody has dated it. The French record allows that it may be very old and then declines to put a number on it, which is more honest than the number would have been. Every source calls it simply a tilleul, a lime, without saying which of the Tilia species it is. If you know either answer, tell us. The GR571 long-distance trail passes close by.
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Grassy plateau between the village centre, Pierreux and the Bléron valley, Xhoris, Ferrières
You can recognise it by the company it keeps: a lime four metres round standing beside the Sainte-Barbe chapel, a Herman cross and a stele. It stands on the open plateau above Xhoris, near the GR571.
Free, open rural plateau; the GR571 long-distance trail passes nearby and it is a signed local point of interest with the Sainte-Barbe chapel beside it.
On foot from Xhoris village centre, on the GR571 trail; no public transport stop at the site.
In bloom
The line is our estimate of how much there is to see, not a measurement. Typical for this species where this tree stands; exact weeks shift with the year.
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